Untitled Art, Houston 2025: Booth A21 – George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX
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Altman Siegel is pleased to present works by Troy Lamarr Chew II, Hiba Kalache, and Trevor Paglen for the inaugural Untitled Art, Houston 2025. This presentation reveals the hidden infrastructures that govern contemporary life, mapping the unseen mechanisms that shape our shared reality.
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Trevor Paglen continues his decades-long investigation into surveillance technology, AI, and state power. His presentation includes documentation of unidentified orbital objects (unids) and visualizations of computer vision algorithms, which unveil and give context to covert surveillance infrastructure.
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Trevor Paglen CLOUD #162 Maximally Stable Extremal Regions; Scale Invariant Feature Transform; Good Features to Track (detail), 2025
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“As part of my ongoing study of how computer vision and AI systems “see” the world, I have a series of works that look at clouds through the “eyes” of various computer vision algorithms. The cloud formations shown in these works are overlaid with strokes and lines depicting what various computer vision algorithms are “seeing” in the images. Different algorithms are designed to look for faces, unique key points, lines, circles, areas of interest, and are attempting to simplify the underlying photograph into a series of sections.These algorithms used in this series of works are found in technologies such as guided missiles and drones, autonomous surveillance systems, self-driving cars, facial recognition, 3-D modeling, and in many other computer vision contexts.”– Trevor Paglen
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Hiba Kalache's gestural abstractions draw from both personal history and broader political contexts. After the 2020 explosion in Beirut's port, Kalache returned to the Bay Area where she continues to develop her intuitive painting practice. The Lebanese landscape remains a consistent reference point in her work, informing abstract compositions that confront themes of entropic fragility, disintegration, and power. Through automatic mark-making and layered brushwork, Kalache's canvases navigate between structure and dissolution, creating a visual language of experiences that often elude direct representation.
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Together, the works of Troy Lamarr Chew II, Hiba Kalache, and Trevor Paglen illuminate the technological, cultural, and emotional systems that shape contemporary life. Each artist reveals hidden structures that belie these complexities. Paglen exposes the covert operations of state surveillance, Chew decodes the layered vernacular of Black cultural expression, and Kalache translates personal and political trauma into abstract, embodied oil painting. Whether through satellites, slang, or gesture, their practices confront the forces that govern visibility, memory, and power. In dialogue, their works offer a compelling meditation on how unseen mechanisms, be they systemic, linguistic, or psychological, leave their imprint on the world and the self.
For more information, please contact Altman Siegel at info@altmansiegel.com or 415-576-9300.
